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the question is if republicans can after eight years of barack obama make a similar kind of change and, you know, we'll pro few years. >> you're hearing already, what i'm hearing is, what could lead to a civil war, where conservatives say mitt romney wasn't conservative enough, and where other republican leaders which was so skewed to the right, really hurt us on issues like immigration. andrea, look, i think michael makes a great point about just the fundamental changes in the electorate. if you look at states like nevada and colorado, and virginia specifically northern virginia, and florida along the i-4 corridor, the changes to the electorate are facing the republican party in a stark way. president bush realized this and michael and his team and there was significant outreach to the latino community in understanding that the party needed to evolve in that some of those lessons were lost and the devicesive ideological primary that mitt romney made, proposed the dream act to beat rick perry has cost him in the election. there will be that conversation and a loud conversation in the r
the question is if republicans can after eight years of barack obama make a similar kind of change and, you know, we'll pro few years. >> you're hearing already, what i'm hearing is, what could lead to a civil war, where conservatives say mitt romney wasn't conservative enough, and where other republican leaders which was so skewed to the right, really hurt us on issues like immigration. andrea, look, i think michael makes a great point about just the fundamental changes in the...
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president obama warns republicans not to create another debt ceiling crisis as a tactic in the budget talks. >> that is a bad strategy for america, it's a bad strategy for your businesses, and it is not a game that i will play. >> the speaker says the president's opening bid couldn't even pass the democratic led senate. boehner is ready for a sit down with the president. >> we can't sit here and negotiate with ourselves and if the president doesn't agree with our proposal and our outline, i think he's got an obligation to send one to the congress. and a plan that can pass both chambers of congress. >> a rare senate appearance, by former majority leader bob dole wasn't enough to win over republican support for a treaty promising equal rights for people with disabilities. we'll talk with the leading sponsor john kerry about what he called one of the sadsest days of his long senate career. >> this vote is to test whether the senate will stand up for those who cannot see or hear and whether senators can hear the truth and see the facts. >> at nato today, secretary of state hillary clinton
president obama warns republicans not to create another debt ceiling crisis as a tactic in the budget talks. >> that is a bad strategy for america, it's a bad strategy for your businesses, and it is not a game that i will play. >> the speaker says the president's opening bid couldn't even pass the democratic led senate. boehner is ready for a sit down with the president. >> we can't sit here and negotiate with ourselves and if the president doesn't agree with our proposal and...
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what was going through your mind when watching president obama last week? >> listen, i think as his campaign has conceded it was a tough night for the president and governor romney did well. what i was thinking they're going to have to pivot. we're at a pivot point in this campaign. a lot of the republicans who probably would have wound up with romney anyways have made the polls closer and the vice presidential debate will be an important one. >> and what would your advice be to joe biden in terms of being tougher but not too tough? what is the mix that he has to get through? he's got a pretty rich amount of material to go through because if he wants to go after the ryan budget cuts and medicare plan, number one, not the revised, those could be pretty powerful weapons according to the mainstream, you know, conventional thinking. >> my advice would be number one, you have to put the romney/ryan record on display and go after it and put out the inconsistencies in it. number two, defend his record and the president's record over the last fou years. >> that's t
what was going through your mind when watching president obama last week? >> listen, i think as his campaign has conceded it was a tough night for the president and governor romney did well. what i was thinking they're going to have to pivot. we're at a pivot point in this campaign. a lot of the republicans who probably would have wound up with romney anyways have made the polls closer and the vice presidential debate will be an important one. >> and what would your advice be to joe...
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and the republicans, but they never got it over the finish line and getting just to the one-yard line is not enough because as you well know, we face not a fiscal cliff, but a calamity if we don't get this straightened out. we've got a federal government whose balance sheet is a mess and in disarray and disorder and it can set the economy into a tailspin if it isn't repaired. >> both sides blame each other for this and getting to the bottom of it, is there something about the way president obama leads and runs this white house and has relationships with capitol hill, that you think contributed to the failure, to the collapse? >> yes. i think he's distant. he isn't close enough to these people. it's not a matter of schmoozing. it's a matter of having substantive relationships. for instance, at one key moment in the negotiations last year, the president calls speaker boehner on the phone. this is one of the most important phone calls of his presidency, and no one else is listening, i don't have knowledge there was a secret tape and the speaker and the president -- >> if you do, please c
and the republicans, but they never got it over the finish line and getting just to the one-yard line is not enough because as you well know, we face not a fiscal cliff, but a calamity if we don't get this straightened out. we've got a federal government whose balance sheet is a mess and in disarray and disorder and it can set the economy into a tailspin if it isn't repaired. >> both sides blame each other for this and getting to the bottom of it, is there something about the way...
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in, the house we pretty much all agree is going to stay republican, but one of the things we've been looking at more closely is that this is going to be a more partisan and less experienced house of representatives. >> exactly. our model this morning had democrats picking up three or four seats total and they need 25. you're absolutely right, that the people that are leaving congress, whether they are moderate conservative, democrat, some of the few remaining white southerners left, there are a lot more moderate than the democrats left behind. and the same thing with republicans. they're more john boehner types than tea party types leaving congress. i think you are going to find a much more ideologically split and the only offsetting factor i can think of is, i think the pressure after this election will be so great on dealing with fiscal cliff, dealing with the debt, the pressure from the business community will be overwhelming you knuckle heads get your acts together that maybe that will offset an even more deeply divided house of representatives and senate for that matter. >> alth
in, the house we pretty much all agree is going to stay republican, but one of the things we've been looking at more closely is that this is going to be a more partisan and less experienced house of representatives. >> exactly. our model this morning had democrats picking up three or four seats total and they need 25. you're absolutely right, that the people that are leaving congress, whether they are moderate conservative, democrat, some of the few remaining white southerners left, there...
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suggests we republicans lose if we go over the cliff, and i got this one thing that's going to mitigate your unhappiness over the fact that we're moving up rates on the wealthiest americans. he needs the third part to sell the whole package. >> and david, there is a jobs report today which sort of mixed news for everyone. it's a good number, down to 7.7%, unemployment, 146,000 new jobs added but the downside is that fewer people were in the labor force a lot fewer, because people gave up on even trying. >> i think this is one of the more provocative questions and get to it on sunday, which is, are we too focused on the debt. are we not focused enough on what the government can be doing to try to spur job growth? beyond just -- >> there was a stimulus piece in the offer from the white house that was laughed at by the -- >> laughed at but could end up surviving. one of the things about the president's initial offer is it may have sent a bad signal to conservatives but it did have the effect of getting his folks behind him and really solidifying that base it felt in the past he gives too m
suggests we republicans lose if we go over the cliff, and i got this one thing that's going to mitigate your unhappiness over the fact that we're moving up rates on the wealthiest americans. he needs the third part to sell the whole package. >> and david, there is a jobs report today which sort of mixed news for everyone. it's a good number, down to 7.7%, unemployment, 146,000 new jobs added but the downside is that fewer people were in the labor force a lot fewer, because people gave up...
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president obama wants to get it done. he wants to keep the sort of onus on republicans to get something done. that, i think, will focus us a little bit on immigration reform, maybe a slight move off the fiscal cliff for a few hours tomorrow. >> in fact, i think the meeting actually starts this afternoon, so i misspoke on that. they might have wanted not to it talk about the drug war, but they have this horrible assassination now of the death of the mayor a fighter against the cartel and already lost her husband. it goes on. >> absolutely. i would say, andrea, always with these meetings you get to talk about what you want to talk about and also things you don't want to talk about. let's see what comes out of it when they greet the cameras and what they have to say. my guess is we'll hear some talk about immigration and the need to reform it. >> a lot of people hope for a new chapter between the two countries. a much more intense relationship. thank you very much, chris. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell rep
president obama wants to get it done. he wants to keep the sort of onus on republicans to get something done. that, i think, will focus us a little bit on immigration reform, maybe a slight move off the fiscal cliff for a few hours tomorrow. >> in fact, i think the meeting actually starts this afternoon, so i misspoke on that. they might have wanted not to it talk about the drug war, but they have this horrible assassination now of the death of the mayor a fighter against the cartel and...
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that makes it possible to have a deal that doesn't force the republicans to agree to higher tax rates which has been a red line for the gop. while they ha've got a long way go, the tone the speaker and president obama made today, making an effort to sound conciliatory, we'll have to see if they're willing to make the compromises that will be necessary but i thought the tone was necessary today. >> mark halperin, watching both sides of the hill, does it seem as though enough can be done in the next couple of weeks -- because we've gone down this road before and we know how many personalities are involved and the politics involved and the difficult house caucus, what's your projectionion? >> it is a conventional wisdom you can't do tax reform fast enough to be part of an initial deal. i would like to think you could. it's clear what the choices are. but the regular is probably going to have to prevail there. to me the question is what is a two-part or three-part deal? what is done in the lame-duck session? i think there's a higher likelihood that the lame-duck session does something to
that makes it possible to have a deal that doesn't force the republicans to agree to higher tax rates which has been a red line for the gop. while they ha've got a long way go, the tone the speaker and president obama made today, making an effort to sound conciliatory, we'll have to see if they're willing to make the compromises that will be necessary but i thought the tone was necessary today. >> mark halperin, watching both sides of the hill, does it seem as though enough can be done in...
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you're seeing two strategies by the obama and romney campaigns. >> what else do we learn from the nbc news/"wall street journal" poll in terms of their attitudes towards the debate? >> just on the debate front, as i was kind of saying, bill mcinturf had a conference call with us and saying -- i can't give away the data but unless there is something extraordinary -- >> point out bill is the republican half of the peter hart/mcinturf team, they work for nbc news. >> he was looking at the data and remarkable how stable it is. unless there's something really ka the ta chris mick or jarring it's going to be hard to knock these numbers out of what we've seen. it will be interesting to see the headline of what the split is between president obama and mitt romney. but bill mcinturf the republican pollster was saying it's going to have to have some kind of jolt to make the race not as stable as it looks right now. >> thanks so much. you never know. >> remember poland and eastern europe and several of the other races that were decided by things that happen late in the race. thank you very much.
you're seeing two strategies by the obama and romney campaigns. >> what else do we learn from the nbc news/"wall street journal" poll in terms of their attitudes towards the debate? >> just on the debate front, as i was kind of saying, bill mcinturf had a conference call with us and saying -- i can't give away the data but unless there is something extraordinary -- >> point out bill is the republican half of the peter hart/mcinturf team, they work for nbc news....
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suggests for the first time that president obama may have known about the petraeus affair long before the election. >> i'm not sure the president hasn't -- was not told before election day. the attorney general said that the state -- excuse me, the department of justice did not notify the president. but we don't know if the attorney general -- >> that's new. that's news. the president knew before election day? >> i didn't say that. i said i don't know. >> and governor chris christie brings some jersey attitude to weekend update. >> i do not thank any of the stupid mayors who ignored my evacuation orders, you're idiots! and when you ignore me, it makes you look like a real seth meyers. >> oh come on. >> i'm talking here. >> all right. >> i also do not want to thank the reporters that put themselves in danger. you know, by walking into the middle of the hurricane with their cameras. we don't need you to tell us there's a hurricane. we have windows. >> message delivered. good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. no cease-fire and at least 30,000 israeli re servists perhaps more a
suggests for the first time that president obama may have known about the petraeus affair long before the election. >> i'm not sure the president hasn't -- was not told before election day. the attorney general said that the state -- excuse me, the department of justice did not notify the president. but we don't know if the attorney general -- >> that's new. that's news. the president knew before election day? >> i didn't say that. i said i don't know. >> and governor...
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the state that matters most to republicans. first, romney kicks off the day at a family farm in iowa where he will be speaking minutes from now. and the battle over big bird, the president turns his attack into a punch line and a commercial, as sesame workshop and senator john mccain cried foul over the obama campaign's new bird ad. >> elmo is -- has been seen in a white suburban he's driving for the border. oscar is hide out in his trash can. we're cracking down on them. governor romney's plan is to let wall street run wild again but he's going to bring the hammer down on sesame street. >> one thing that president obama can't run on is his record, and so big bird, i guess, is a fun thing to talk about. >> good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. president obama and mitt romney are heading back to ohio today in a very different situation than the last time they campaigned in the battleground state. the new pew poll know shows governor romney ahead among likely voters. it's the latest dose of reality for the obama camp
the state that matters most to republicans. first, romney kicks off the day at a family farm in iowa where he will be speaking minutes from now. and the battle over big bird, the president turns his attack into a punch line and a commercial, as sesame workshop and senator john mccain cried foul over the obama campaign's new bird ad. >> elmo is -- has been seen in a white suburban he's driving for the border. oscar is hide out in his trash can. we're cracking down on them. governor...
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part i would say of a multi-front effort to adapt some of the tactics that clearly work for president obama in the campaign imported over to policy. they tried this with health care, andrea, back in 2009. it didn't work all that well. let's see if this operation works better. >> the other big twitter aannouncement today wa was @pontifx. the pope is going to start tweeting as of september 12th. >> he already has more followers than you and i and has been on for one day. >> it's amazing how things happen. >> god. >> back to the white house, jay carney said during the briefing in this hour as you can and chuck todd reported at the top of the hour that the president did not make a decision about secretary state. that's a whole foreign policy package, because you have to do the state department, cia, defense, national security, u.n. ambassador depending on what moves he makes. it's a whole puzzle he has to fill out all the pieces. the national security aadviser is the only one that does not require senate confirmation. >> it feels kind of like it, and yachlt when you look at it politically it fe
part i would say of a multi-front effort to adapt some of the tactics that clearly work for president obama in the campaign imported over to policy. they tried this with health care, andrea, back in 2009. it didn't work all that well. let's see if this operation works better. >> the other big twitter aannouncement today wa was @pontifx. the pope is going to start tweeting as of september 12th. >> he already has more followers than you and i and has been on for one day. >> it's...
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. >> ben la bolt from the obama campaign headquarters, thank you very much. and up next, we have our politico briefing, republicans airing their doubts about their candidate. this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. bob... oh, hey alex. just picking up some, brochures, posters copies of my acceptance speech. great! it's always good to have a backup plan, in case i get hit by a meteor. wow, your hair looks great. didn't realize they did photoshop here. hey, good call on those mugs. can't let 'em see what you're drinking. you know, i'm glad we're both running a nice, clean race. no need to get nasty. here's your "honk if you had an affair with taylor" yard sign. looks good. [ male announcer ] fedex office. now save 50% on banners. a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day ca
. >> ben la bolt from the obama campaign headquarters, thank you very much. and up next, we have our politico briefing, republicans airing their doubts about their candidate. this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. bob... oh, hey alex. just picking up some, brochures, posters copies of my acceptance speech. great! it's always good to have a backup plan, in case i get hit by a meteor. wow, your hair looks great. didn't realize they did photoshop here. hey, good call on...
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supporter and republican strategist john supports governor romney. thanks to both of you. well, tom, is that clint eastwood ad effective? >> you know, he's a great actor and certainly an american icon and this ad shows that romney's losing a lot of ground with seniors since putting paul ryan on the ticket, it's put florida in play in a way it wasn't before. i've been out in a bunch of the battleground states. seniors are concerned about that plan. we'll see if this is enough to stop the concern about that in the same way i think paul ryan's speech today is really a response to the drubbing he's taken with the nuns on the bus and others who called out his budget failing to meet the standards of decency and more reality. these are defensive measures. it's a full sprint right now. both sides will make their case. tv stations willing the winners and we'll see how it ends up. >> and john, the daily tracking poll from gallup has president obama's approval rating at 53%. that is the highest it's been since late 2009. does that put some worry into you? we've
supporter and republican strategist john supports governor romney. thanks to both of you. well, tom, is that clint eastwood ad effective? >> you know, he's a great actor and certainly an american icon and this ad shows that romney's losing a lot of ground with seniors since putting paul ryan on the ticket, it's put florida in play in a way it wasn't before. i've been out in a bunch of the battleground states. seniors are concerned about that plan. we'll see if this is enough to stop the...
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mitt romney takes the stage with president obama and it could be a pivotal moment for his campaign. joining me now, virginia governor and romney supporter bob mcdonnell. thank you for being with us. how important is this debate and do you think we'll be waking up on thursday morning as chris christie said with a completely different campaign? >> i think all the debates are important but particularly this one because it's on domestic policy which is the critical issue in the race and the first times that americans will get to see mitt romney and barack obama side by side. not only hear their words and assess their styles and their candor, but also get to hear the ideas. i think that's what this whole race comes down to, is the record. i would say the failed record of barack obama on jobs, on gas prices, on debt management, on energy and compare that to the vision and the ideas for the future that mitt romney has. it's very important. the last couple weeks there's been a little bit of a movement for the president. but listen, speeches don't create jobs. rhetoric doesn't create jobs. g
mitt romney takes the stage with president obama and it could be a pivotal moment for his campaign. joining me now, virginia governor and romney supporter bob mcdonnell. thank you for being with us. how important is this debate and do you think we'll be waking up on thursday morning as chris christie said with a completely different campaign? >> i think all the debates are important but particularly this one because it's on domestic policy which is the critical issue in the race and the...
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but the lengths to which so many people in the republican party are going to play politics with this issue, i think is startling. ambassador stevens' own father said this shouldn't be a political issue. we should figure out what's going on. this president and administration have passed on the information that they've had when they've had it to the american people. it's not been deceptive, it's not been misleading in any way, shape, or form. >> let's talk about tonight and the debate. this is a town hall format as you know very well. you helped prepare barack obama for that format four years ago. what is the bigger challenge now tonight given his weak acknowledged weak performance in denver, how does he get aggressive enough to tackle mitt romney and, you know, show his forcefulness, show his leadership qualities and show exactly how he would lead the country at the same time as dealing directly with the concerns of the people in front of him? >> i think some of what chris said is absolutely true. you've got undecided voters asking you questions not as a journalistic moderator but som
but the lengths to which so many people in the republican party are going to play politics with this issue, i think is startling. ambassador stevens' own father said this shouldn't be a political issue. we should figure out what's going on. this president and administration have passed on the information that they've had when they've had it to the american people. it's not been deceptive, it's not been misleading in any way, shape, or form. >> let's talk about tonight and the debate. this...
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>> well the obama campaign needs pennsylvania to win. the romney campaign doesn't. i don't think they would be wasting the money in pennsylvania on the republican side if they thought they had no chance or at least a chance to distract the democrats. if the romney campaign went on the air in new york, i don't think the obama campaign would feel compelled to match the dollars there. if the obama campaign went on the air in texas tv i don't think the romney campaign would feel the need to go there. the vice president had a trip planned there means they're a little worried. republicans are doing two things at once, not just the romney campaign but outside groups, trying to put pressure on the president to defend turf like minnesota, and to move resources including candidate time away from ohio but to give themselves another potential path. it may be in the end, not predicting it, it's possible romney could win pennsylvania and lose ohio. that would be a surprise but give him a chance to get to 270. >> and by the way, mark, you and i first met in the '92 campaign and we
>> well the obama campaign needs pennsylvania to win. the romney campaign doesn't. i don't think they would be wasting the money in pennsylvania on the republican side if they thought they had no chance or at least a chance to distract the democrats. if the romney campaign went on the air in new york, i don't think the obama campaign would feel compelled to match the dollars there. if the obama campaign went on the air in texas tv i don't think the romney campaign would feel the need to...
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president obama won both of them in 2008. in 2009, bob mcdonnell the governor of virginia and a republican won both of them. that suburban vote as it relates to northern virginia is critically important to both -- it's more important to mitt romney. he has to i think carry those two counties because we already know in the kind of inner suburbs, northern virginia arlington and parts of fairfax county barack obama is going to win overwhelmingly. it's those areas to keep an eye on. >> mark halperin, you've been talking to the campaigns, out recently in ohio and in virginia with president -- former president clinton and president obama. you've seen the emotion on both sides. what are you hearing today from the campaigns? >> i've talked to people who talked to the pollsters for both campaigns today. not people who work directly for the campaign but close associates with access to pollsters. a fundamental difference and reflects what we've seen. the president's team, given they acknowledged they're in a close race, they're certain
president obama won both of them in 2008. in 2009, bob mcdonnell the governor of virginia and a republican won both of them. that suburban vote as it relates to northern virginia is critically important to both -- it's more important to mitt romney. he has to i think carry those two counties because we already know in the kind of inner suburbs, northern virginia arlington and parts of fairfax county barack obama is going to win overwhelmingly. it's those areas to keep an eye on. >> mark...